- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Dolly H., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1928. She recounts that her father was Turkish by birth, worked in Greece, and married her mother there; attending a French school until 1940; anti-Jewish regulations including expulsion from school (of twenty-three Jews in her class, only she and one other survived); ghettoization; her father advising friends not to obey German regulations; his Armenian friend arranging train tickets and false papers for them to escape to Italian-occupied Larisa; living there and in Volos; encountering a lawyer who arranged better papers with Greek names; traveling to Athens; living in a hotel; betrayal in June 1944; bribing the Germans who arrested them to let them go; living with a non-Jew until liberation in October; completing her studies and attending university; and marriage in 1949. Ms. H. notes many brave Greeks who helped Jews and the importance to their survival of her father's business contacts and German language skills.
- Author/Creator
- H., Dolly, 1928-
- Published
- Athens, Greece : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
- Interview Date
- December 14, 1994.
- Locale
- Greece
Thessalonikē
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Larisa (Greece)
Volos (Greece)
Athens (Greece)
- Cite As
- Dolly H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3019). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Almuli, Jaša, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
